Several editorial staff at Trinity Mirror’s Birmingham-based titles have been given extra responsibilities in a series of internal promotions. At the Evening Mail, long-serving photographer Steve Murphy has been appointed picture editor, while Gary Denning becomes the paper’s chief sub-editor,

Journalists’ jobs are safe in the latest round of job reviews at Trinity Mirror. A group spokesman confirmed than the roles of 18 divisional staff are currently under review. All are based at Trinity Mirror’s regional newspaper division headquarters in

Twenty redundancies are being sought across the newsrooms of the Birmingham Post & Mail, the Sunday Mercury and the company’s free weekly, the Birmingham News. The blow comes at the end of a project run across the whole of Trinity

Staff from the Birmingham Metro News are hard at work as they prepare for the newspaper to be relaunched as the Birmingham News on Thursday. Together with a new name – changed partly to differentiate it from the free daily

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